Senior QA Engineer - Networking L2/L3

Cisco

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Remote (Usa-Milpitas, US) Posted 37 days ago $165,000–$241,400 / year
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TL;DR

As a Senior QA Engineer on the IOS-XR team at Cisco, you will design and automate customer use cases for high-scale platforms like ASR9K, NCS5500, and 8000, focusing on L2/L3 networking protocols such as ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, RSVP-TE, and Segment Routing. Your day-to-day responsibilities include developing test frameworks and web-based GUIs with analytics and machine learning, driving both manual and automated testing, and collaborating closely with development teams to validate customer use cases. You will need expertise in networking software quality assurance, experience with RDMA technologies like InfiniBand and RoCE, and proficiency in network automation tools such as pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, and Cisco NSO. Additionally, UNIX/Linux environments and Bash scripting skills are essential for configuring and fixing complex protocols. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge networking solutions at a global scale.

Skills

Python Bash UNIX Linux pyATS Ansible Jenkins RobotFramework CiscoNSO MPLS IPv6 GRE MPLS-TE LDP RSVP SegmentRouting EVPN L2/L3VPN SNMP Telemetry gNMI gRPC Netconf OpenConfigYangModels CCIE ASR9K NCS5500 CRS 8000

What you'll do

  • Design and develop innovative test frameworks for customer use cases on IOS-XR platforms.
  • Automate and configure test plans based on dynamic prioritization of tasks from customer demands.
  • Drive both manual and automated testing to identify, track, and verify defects and fixes.
  • Reproduce customer issues in internal labs and generate detailed test execution reports.
  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize test coverage and automation performance.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelors in STEM with 7+ years or Masters in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience.
  • Networking domain expertise including L2/L3 protocols like ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv6, GRE, RSVP-TE.
  • Experience in networking software quality assurance and test automation.
  • Proficiency in UNIX/Linux environments and scripting languages like Bash/Unix Shell.
  • Knowledge of network automation tools such as pyATS, Ansible, Jenkins, Robot framework.

Market check

Salary context

This $165,000–$241,400 range sits above 88% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$117,000–$199,100

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$137,800–$177,481

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Cisco

Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity

Cisco currently has 113 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $165,000–$241,400 across 113 roles with salary data.

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